Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1468 mails)

["David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E." <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On or about Tuesday 02 June 2009 at approximately 22:52:32 Hawit composed:
> I have Sony Vaio VGN-SZ38 GP and on Windows platform, I can check that my
> chipset is Intel 945, and powered by NVIDIA. So is that mean I should
> install NVIDIA driver to get best performance for my GUI?
>
> I tried to install NVIDIA via one click install, but didnt work, the
> screen went blank.

        Open a terminal (xterm or konsole) and post the output of:

lspci -v

  and as root, also post:

hwinfo --gfxcard

        If it is an Intel Card, you are not going to get the NVidia driver to 
drive 
the display. Who know, your motherboard may have an NVidia 
chipset/controller, but your graphics card is the Intel 945.

(Bailing wire and duct-tape -- any combination of chips will do these days ;-)

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